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53
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12595
World Ranking
4765
National Ranking
25

Overview

Garth J. O. Fletcher is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and focuses their research within the broad discipline of Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The primary research topics explored by Fletcher include:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Fletcher's recent published papers illustrate a focus on interpersonal relationships, emotional processes, and psychological well-being. These include:

  • Attachment anxiety and the curvilinear effects of expressive suppression on individuals' and partners' outcomes, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Reconsidering "Best Practices" for Testing the Ideal Standards Model: A Response to Eastwick, Finkel, and Simpson (2018), 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Depressive symptoms, stress, and poorer emotional support when needed by intimate partners, 2021, Emotion

Fletcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors throughout their research efforts. Notable collaborators include:

  • Nickola C. Overall
  • Yuthika U. Girme
  • Brett J. Peters
  • Levi R. Baker
  • Harry T. Reis

The scholar has published in several notable venues pertinent to their areas of study. Key publication venues with multiple contributions include:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Emotion

Best Publications

  • The Measurement of Perceived Relationship Quality Components: A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Approach

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson;Geoff Thomas

  • Ideals in intimate relationships.

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson;Geoff Thomas;Louise Giles

  • Attributional complexity: An individual differences measure.

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Paula Danilovics;Guadalupe Fernandez;Dena Peterson

  • Ideals, perceptions, and evaluations in early relationship development.

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson;Geoff Thomas;Geoff Thomas

  • Through the eyes of love: reality and illusion in intimate relationships.

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Patrick S. G. Kerr

  • Love, hate, anger, and jealousy in close relationships: a prototype and cognitive appraisal analysis

    Julie Fitness;Garth J. O. Fletcher

  • Knowledge structures in close relationships : a social psychological approach

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Julie Fitness

  • Pair-Bonding, Romantic Love, and Evolution: The Curious Case of Homo sapiens

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson;Lorne Campbell;Nickola C. Overall

  • Mapping the Intimate Relationship Mind: Comparisons between Three Models of Attachment Representations

    Nickola C. Overall;Garth J. O. Fletcher;Myron D. Friesen

  • Warm and Homely or Cold and Beautiful? Sex Differences in Trading Off Traits in Mate Selection

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jacqueline M. Tither;Claire O’Loughlin;Myron Friesen

  • Ideal Standards, the Self, and Flexibility of Ideals in Close Relationships

    Lorne Campbell;Jeffry A. Simpson;Deborah A. Kashy;Garth J. O. Fletcher

  • Regulating Partners in Intimate Relationships: The Costs and Benefits of Different Communication Strategies

    Nickola C. Overall;Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson;Chris G. Sibley

  • The effect of attitude on the recall of personal histories.

    Michael Ross;Cathy McFarland;Garth J. Fletcher

  • Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection

    Norman P. Li;Jose C. Yong;William Tov;Oliver Sng

  • On-line empathic accuracy in marital interaction.

    Geoff Thomas;Garth J. O. Fletcher;Craig Lange

  • Cognition in close relationships.

    Garth J. O. Fletcher;Frank D. Fincham

  • Mind-Reading Accuracy in Intimate Relationships: Assessing the Roles of the Relationship, the Target, and the Judge

    Geoff Thomas;Garth J O Fletcher

  • Regulation processes in intimate relationships: the role of ideal standards.

    Nickola C. Overall;Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson

  • The New Science of Intimate Relationships

    Garth J. O. Fletcher

  • Helping Each Other Grow: Romantic Partner Support, Self-Improvement, and Relationship Quality:

    Nickola C. Overall;Garth J. O. Fletcher;Jeffry A. Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
Nickola C. Overall
Nickola C. Overall University of Auckland
Lorne Campbell
Lorne Campbell University of Western Ontario
Colleen Ward
Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Margaret S. Clark
Margaret S. Clark Yale University
Glenn D. Reeder
Glenn D. Reeder Illinois State University
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Frank D. Fincham
Frank D. Fincham Florida State University
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Bruce J. Ellis
Bruce J. Ellis University of Utah

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